How should I license my project?
This week we should understand how the license and patent thing works to decide how we will disseminate our projects.
In my opinion most of the products should be open source, because then people could always improve it and make it more usable according to their own expectations.
Have a look in some nice examples of open source products:
- 3D Robotics drone
- Local Motors Rally Fighter (open source car)
So since I learned everything to make this project in a open source way I think is fair to share my project in the same way. Then I started to read some options of open source options, and for now I would like to keep it licensed by Creative Commons:
- Creative Commons: “If you want to give people the right to share, use, and even build upon a work you’ve created, you should consider publishing it under a Creative Commons license. CC gives you flexibility (for example, you can choose to allow only non-commercial uses) and protects the people who use your work, so they don’t have to worry about copyright infringement, as long as they abide by the conditions you have specified.” (http://creativecommons.org/about)
They have different categories of license and for my project I choose:
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Also I’m wondering to keep working on this project to make it become a final product, and maybe create a Kickstart of it. But the idea is keep it open for those that want to make it by themselves and sell it for the others.
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